Sentences with phrase «studying predator and prey»

Friedkin is in his best form, studying predator and prey in many different incarnations.

Not exact matches

Dr Booth said studying the relationships between predators and prey, and the interactions between different predators that hunt the same prey, were important in ecological research.

A new Journal of Wildlife Management study conducted in South Africa has found that black - backed jackals, a similar species to coyotes and dingoes, prefer to eat livestock rather than similar - sized wild prey, which has important consequences for livestock husbandry and the management of predators.

The study «An ecological regime shift resulting from disrupted predator - prey interactions in Holocene Australia» also involved Professors Corey Bradshaw and Barry Brook from the University of Adelaide's Environment Institute and Professor Chris Johnson from the University of Tasmania.

Richard Coss, a psychology professor and expert on the evolution of predator — prey relationships at the University of California, Davis, studied the behavior of 185 people who were attacked by mountain lions (aka pumas or cougars) between 1890 and 2000 in the U.S. and Canada.

Rolf O. Peterson (1944 ---RRB- Peterson helms the world's longest - running study of the predator - prey relationship in the wild, between wolves and moose on Isle Royale in the middle of Lake Superior.

Instead, the researchers speculate that the birds were responding to movements of their aquatic prey timed to the spring - neap tide cycle, a hypothesis that could be confirmed through a study jointly tracking predator and prey abundance.

But all bets are off if both the predator and prey species are evolving in even small ways, according to a new study published this week in the journal Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences.

Bioluminescence can be used for luring prey, communicating, and hiding from predators, and the trait likely began appearing in fish up to 150 million years ago, according to a study in the journal PLOS ONE.

Though the study included only a small number of sharks monitored over varying lengths of time, the findings may suggest that fish prey location may influence movements of their shark predators, and that group spawning events may shape ecosystem dynamics in deeper coral reefs.

Sarah Ann participates in studies of climate effects on top predators, climate variability in the California Current, and predator - prey relationships in the Bering Sea and Gulf of Alaska.

This study examined the independent and combined effects of short - term exposure to elevated CO2 and boat noise on the predator — prey interactions of a pair of common coral reef fishes (Pomacentrus wardi and its predator, Pseudochromis fuscus).

Towards the end of my degree, my educational interest veered back towards animals, and I took a research position studying animal predator - prey relationships.

Also: two very detailed studies supporting a widely understood (though only rarely acknowledged among TNR opponents) pattern of predators: cats tend to prey on the young, the old, the weak and unhealthy.

However, cracks started to appear when a study was made of the predator - prey relationship of wolf and elks.